Multiple hospitals evacuated patients this week as the Camp Fire continued to spread across California, according to the state’s Department of Public Health.
More than 300 patients across three general acute care hospitals, three skilled nursing facilities and six intermediate care facilities have evacuated since Nov. 10. Some facilities, like Los Robos Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, have started repopulating their hospitals with evacuee patients, but most of the facilities remain non-operational, according to the Department of Public Health.
The blaze forced Adventist Health Feather River Hospital to evacuate on Nov. 8, and damaged the lower level of the hospital, the chiller and utility area and most of the other outbuildings, according to the hospital’s website. Full damage from the fire is still being assessed, but in the meantime evacuated patients are staying at Enloe Hospital in Chico and Oroville Hospital in Oroville.
A majority of Adventist Health’s staff have lost their homes, a representative for the hospital told Bloomberg News.
The Camp Fire, which started on Thursday, Nov. 8 near Camp Creek Road in Butte County, has been recorded as the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history. The fire has killed 63 people and destroyed thousands of homes and commercial structures, according to the most recent Butte County Camp Fire Incident Update on Nov. 16
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— CAL FIRE Butte Unit/Butte County Fire Department (@CALFIRE_ButteCo) November 16, 2018
